The CHANGE A LIFE Program

Unique Evidence-Based Online Program

Developed by the world’s leading researchers and endorsed by UNICEF and Children’s Mercy Hospitals, CHANGE A LIFE is the only free, evidence-based online program of its kind in the world.

CHANGE A LIFE can teach you how to become The ONE for a child growing up with domestic violence – a caring adult who steps in and offers simple support and messages of hope that can foster a child’s resiliency and help change their life.

“Resilience does not come from rare and special qualities, but from the everyday magic of ordinary, normative human”. – Ann Masten, Regents Professor, Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Development, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, “Ordinary Magic: Resilience Processes in Development”

The Program’s History

In the spring of 2010, some of the world’s leading researchers, therapists and advocates came together to answer one essential question: How can we help children and adults across the globe who are impacted by Childhood Domestic Violence reach their full potential? We wanted to create ONE SCALABLE program that could help as many people as possible.

Two years later, the CHANGE A LIFE program was completed.

Since then, CHANGE A LIFE has been completed by thousands of caring adults worldwide, many of whom represent organizations focused on child development, youth crisis prevention, or helping at-risk adults. The program was empirically tested in a 2-year university study and proven effective to help guide, prepare and qualify adults to step into the lives of children growing up with domestic violence as well as support friends or other adults who previously experienced CDV. The study’s findings were recently published in the Journal of Family Violence.